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police shooting investigations
Coverage of police shooting investigations in the Nexus archive.
- 5 things to know about California’s backlog of police shooting investigations
California's police shooting investigations, transferred to the Department of Justice in 2020 to address conflicts of interest, have closed 41 cases over five years without recommending charges against any officer. Investigations average nearly 2.5 years, exceeding statutes of limitations for certain crimes like involuntary manslaughter and missing deadlines for officer decertification.